[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/11] dm: Removal of some boards due to DM_MMC deadline

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Sat, 11 May 2019 at 13:36, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> + Peng, the new MMC maintainer
>
> On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 01:23:45PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
>
> > This series starts the process of removing boards which have not been
> > converted to driver model for MMC.
>
> I'm sorry, no.  Like I've been saying in the SPI thread, and I thought I
> had made clear elsewhere:
> - This release we move the drivers to depend on BROKEN.  Jagan has a
>   patch right now that makes BROKEN make another warning happen, but I'm
>   not 100% sure I like this, but also haven't had a chance to try my
>   idea of just removing the driver from the build and seeing if the
>   boards link, or how hard making them link again is.
> - Next release we can remove the _drivers_ that depend on BROKEN.

Sorry I must have missed this, have had very little time in the past
few months. I did see mention of BROKEN elsewhere but had somehow not
made the connection.

Could we get a note added to MIGRATION.txt perhaps?

>
> Yes, this will result in a bunch of boards that aren't nearly so
> functional as they would be expected to be.  This in turn might lead to:
> - Someone stepping up as they care about the hardware
> - Removing of the boards down the line when it's clear no one has been
>   using them as there's a big window where generally key drivers aren't
>   there anymore.

Sounds like a great plan, and much better and easier than removal
(which is a real pain to create patches for).

Regards,
Simon